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10
Farmer 19.10.12
features
Southernbelles
INSPIRATIONAL RURAL WOMEN
She's fighting for gender equality
Second home: Irish Rose Grace Campbell is loving the Southland way of life.
It's a long way from Ireland to Southland for
2012 Rose of Tralee Grace Campbell. Diane
Bishop reports.
The fight for gender
equality rages in
Ireland.
It's an issue 2012 Rose of
Tralee, Grace
Campbell, feels passionately
about.
She believes women should be
paid the same as men, but in
Ireland where she grew up, men
were paid, on average, 17 per cent
more.
''There is discrimination of
women and they are
undervalued,'' she said.
Grace grew up in Country
Kildare, near Dublin, and gained a
post-graduate diploma in
communications, but bleak job
prospects in Ireland saw her and
construction partner Paul
emigrated to New Zealand two
years ago.
She got a job as a communications
officer for the Southland District
Council, based in Invercargill,
and also hosts a show, First Word,
on Radio Southland every
Thursday, interviewing
councillors, staff members and
people who want to raise
awareness about projects in the
region.
Grace, 26, said it was hard leaving
family behind in Ireland but she
really liked Southland, which she
described as a ''genuine New
Zealand experience''.
''You can't get much further than
the bottom of the South Island,''
she laughed.
She was enjoying the quieter pace
of Southland, less hustle and
bustle, and a shorter commute to
work than she had been used to.
''Growing up 20 minutes from
Dublin I'm used to a lot of
people.''
Speaking at the
International Day of Rural
Women seminar in
Invercargill recently, Grace
said Ireland and New
Zealand were similar in so
many ways.
Many New Zealanders had a
connection to Ireland by
virtue of their ancestors and
she was often reminded of
this, she said.
''People come up to me all
the time and tell me where
their grandad came from.''
Grace was a strong supporter of
the National Women's Council of
Ireland which engaged with older
women, the traveller community,
those who lived in remote areas
and suffered economic
deprivation.
The fight for gender equality had
been raging since the 1960s, she
said. Irish women were absent
from politics, so women's issues
were not at the forefront of
discussion and less than a quarter
of the voices on the radio were
women, Grace said.
''Women are undervalued but
they have the primary
responsibility for care in our
community. The women's council
is highlighting these issues.''
Grace said the Tralee festival in
Ireland was hugely popular, with
more than one million viewers
tuning in to hear who had won.
''The festival highlights the
empowerment of women and their
connection to Ireland.''
She had made a lot of friends in
Southland and enjoyed
frequenting the local Irish
watering hole Waxy O'Shea's,
which reminded her of home.
''I miss Ireland but this is my
second home.''